Peck clearly doesn’t understand himself at all. He’s a middle aged, married gay man who still looks in the mirror and sees his 1990s self, and resents other gay men who don’t share his narrow worldview and tastes (or rather hates; he doesn’t like much beyond himself)

“Historically progressive?” You haven’t followed the New Republic closely, have you. Historically, they feature the kind of “liberals” who go on Fox shows to trash the left and brag about their friendship with Ann Coulter. 

Thanks for articulating this in a way I couldn’t. Super cool to be felt like an outsider all of your life in the straight world, but even cooler to enter the gay community and then be derided because you’re not the “right type of gay”.

Peck’s column popped up in my newsfeed on Saturday and I read it all the way through. Within its text, one thing became clear to me (me: a 57 year old gay man who went through the early 90s in NY and LA - and all that meant, too): Peck is stuck in a time and place and suffering from arrested development. I’d wager…

I am so tired of this “it took him 33 years to come out.” Are gays supposed to come out the moment they are born? Jesus Christ this is so fucking stupid.

I thought it was a "Mayor" typo, because "Mary" did seem over-the-line.

Thanks for the perspective, but you really don’t think that a historically progressive magazine like The New Republic publishing an article that argues that because a gay politician came out relatively later in life than the current norm, he won’t be able to focus on his job because he’ll be too busy exploring his…

All of this.

Rich has mad an online living of criticizing people for not coming out quickly enough. None of the above is at all surprising.

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?

This. It’s like if a black man wrote an essay about Obama and heavily implied he wasn’t a real black man because he never joined a gang or smoked crack. It’s literally criticizing the man for not embodying stereotypes.

Well this gay man found parts of the article to be quite homophobic. Calling a gay man “Mary” in an attempt to degrade and belittle him is pretty textbook homophobia.

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?

Right, because adding more minorities to the overall player pool will certainly make the team less talented.

Snitches get scritches.

When is it news that a cat is “uncooperative?”

Yawn? For the presidential candidate? Lobbyists, sleazy businessmen and his son and Biden screaming at aids who bring up the impropriety? When 2020 is on the line? BHR? Burisma? ‘Optics’ and “leveraging access for his benefit”

As a Jew, I joke that about itmyself, but in her case, she is not a Jew and yes bllahh bllahh bllahh i know she is converted, but in her case again not a Jew.

Nepotism Barbie wants to sit at the adult table. The look Lagarde gave her was amazing. I really don’t think you can undermine the Trump Administration any more than Donald himself has already done. The whole thing is a farce and an embarrassment.